Hi! I'm facing the following problem: I need to extract a single file from a remote repository in an automated process. I won't detail my higher level requirements here. Suffice to say that I have hit this problem with git and hg on several occasions in the past. In this iteration, it is a bit nastier than before:
- I have to assume that the remote repository is running without a hosting server or with an unknown one. So abusing a web frontend for this task is out of the question. - Cloning the whole repository is out of the question, too. This can waste a lot of bandwidth, time and disk space on the client. All I need is a configuration file that is a few kB in size. The required bandwidth for that should be somehow proportional. - No temporary files. Managing those properly is hard. I'd rather write a considerably more complex program that does everything in memory than a solution that might leak files. - The solution has to work at least on Windows and Linux. So in essence, what I am asking is probably the following: is there a hg client capable of assembling a file from a remote repository's tip while working entirely in memory? If not, what would it take to write one? Gregor
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